Today's News

A tree fell onto a vehicle on Race St. shortly after the start of the Kingston Christmas Parade Monday night, dropping a power line, breaking the windshield of the vehicle and injuring the passenger.

Two others were injured by the falling power line and transported to the hospital.

“I heard the tree crack but thought it was part of the parade,” said Garrett Strickland of Kingston, who was driving the BMW 535i near Johnson Street and Race Street and waiting for the parade to pass.

Thanksgiving provides us an opportunity to give thanks for what we have.

All around Roane County during the past few weeks, I saw great examples of people and organizations giving thanks and helping others.

With Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror it’s now time to look toward the Christmas holidays. A lot of events are planned to celebrate the winter holidays, including the Christmas parades in Kingston, Harriman Rockwood and Oliver Springs.

Thanksgiving provides us an opportunity to give thanks for what we have.

All around Roane County during the past few weeks, I saw great examples of people and organizations giving thanks and helping others.

With Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror it’s now time to look toward the Christmas holidays. A lot of events are planned to celebrate the winter holidays, including the Christmas parades in Kingston, Harriman Rockwood and Oliver Springs.

Since the November election, mixed signals and contradictory messages from our president-elect have bewildered Americans of almost every political persuasion.

For a few more weeks, we should all take a deep breath and recall that the lame-duck period between election and inauguration days is a longstanding feature of our uniquely American system of government that has often roused anxieties.

When I conduct the Negotiation Basics: Getting the Best Deals for Your Business workshop at the Roane County Chamber of Commerce, the first thing we address is that people are negotiating all the time.

In addition to your suppliers and customers, think about your children and other family members, your coworkers and other employees, etc.

One of the things that workshop participants focus on is the concept of alternate currencies.

Alternate currencies are those things which cost you little but may have significant value to the buyer.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol drug fund got a boost this month, thanks to an out-of-state fugitive Trooper Robert Woody arrested in Roane County.

Reonoppolis D. Taylor was a passenger in a 2002 Ford Explorer that Woody stopped on Interstate 40 on Nov. 5. Digital scales, methamphetamine, rubber bands, a spoon with burn marks and a drug needle were reportedly found in the vehicle. Taylor also had $1,015 in cash in his front pocket.